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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9705027" data-attributes="member: 907">Makes sense. That also explains why the most successful licensed RPGs are those that are tied to an IP with long-term success and lots of source material to draw on (e.g. Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings) where both the licensor and licensee are interested in a more long-term relationship and/or the ones where the publisher has a house system they are familiar with and can tweak to fit the license (which I would guess shaves a lot of the game design part of the time-to-market off).Another thing to consider is that if you can keep up a decent production pace, you can probably pick all the low-hanging fruit for a license in like three years. Core book, monster book, player's option book, gear book, maybe an adventure or two. After that I'm pretty sure the market falls off pretty quickly. For example, I know some people have complained about how there hasn't been anything new for Star Wars in years, but I think it's because the game(s) is (are) complete. You have three semi-separate product lines with each having a core book, a beginner set, six splat books to match the six careers in that game, an adventure or two, and a sourcebook or two. You also have some era books primarily based on the prequels and cartoons, which work with the whole game line, as well as some gear books and NPC books compiling stuff from various splat books. Sure, they could do stuff based on the sequel trilogy and/or the interim Disney+ material (e.g. the Mandalorian), but I feel that would be redundant. The game is done, and Edge is just reprinting books for it every now and then. They're likely not paying much to have that added to Asmodee's overall Star Wars license, so just keep it going for now.</blockquote>

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